Word: paraquat
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Plans for a Harvard chapter of NORML could include establishing a local laboratory to test marijuana for Paraquat, the contaminating herbicide currently being used by the Mexican government to destroy marijuana crops, Slayton said...
...Cambridge City Council Monday unanimously passed a resolution asking the Cambridge Health and Hospital Commissioner to test all marijuana confiscated by the police for paraquat contamination...
Since 1973, the U.S. has funded the Mexican government's campaign to spray paraquat, a potentially lethal herbicide, on Mexican marijuana fields. The council's resolution aims at evaluating the amount of contaminated marijuana in the Cambridge area...
...resolution, sponsored by city councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, includes a provision to distribute educational materials about paraquat poisoning to city high schools...
...National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) recently announced a plan to examine pot samples for evidence of paraquat, the carcinogenic defoliant sprayed on Mexican marijuana plants in a U.S. government-sponsored effort to kill the weed at its source...